…quotes of the month…

“Sometimes the best way to learn something is
by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”
~Neil ‘Richard MacKinnon’ Gaiman; british author and screenwriter.

“Sometimes the best way to learn something is
by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”
~Neil ‘Richard MacKinnon’ Gaiman; british author and screenwriter.
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.”
~’Sir Terence David John’ “Terry” Pratchett; british author, humorist and satirist.

“If you’re waiting for the perfect moment,
you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive.
I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.”
~Margaret ‘Eleanor’ Atwood; canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor.

“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
~’Dorothy Gladys’ “Dodie” Smith; british novelist and playwright.

“…it was not the pandemic that was the danger,
but instead this infection, the main symptom of which
was that people showed the worst side of themselves, and they were weak,
immeasurably weak and immeasurably idiotic…”
~László Krasznahorkai; hungarian novelist and screenwriter.

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence,
it is self-preservation,
and that is an act of political warfare.”
~Audre ‘Geraldine’ Lorde; american writer, poet, philosopher and civil rights activist.

“The most painful state of being
is remembering the future,
particularly the one you’ll never have.”
~Soren ‘Aabye’ Kiekegaard; danish philosopher, poet and social critic.
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
~Charles ‘Lutwidge’ Dodgson “Lewis Carroll”; british author, poet and mathematician.

“A lot of things you see as a child remain with you
…you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.”
~’Timothy Walter’ “Tim” Burton; american filmmaker and artist.

“Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it.
When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.”
~’Rodman Edward’ “Rod” Serling; american screenwriter and television producer.